test yourself and become free to. see what nature can give you. the. libyan rebels ready to storm could use hometown under nato as shields is in a desperate effort to find a fugitive colonel that's a european governments to start their own fight the oil deals in the country. a draft resolution and deals are growing at the u.n. security council as russia and the west proposed two different approaches the toppling the escalating crisis in syria. a world war two veteran who's leading a campaign to expose corruption in british courts is losing its battle after an appeal against a six month jail sentence has been dismissed. and the republican looks to its newly elected president to rebuild the nation's economy which lies in ruins after years

of struggling to maintain. its ok to have you with us on a saturday this is artsy with me rumors show fist fighting reported in parts of libya as moammar gadhafi remains at large despite nato support of the rebels and the hunt for the fugitive colonel coalition forces have launched an attack on his last remaining stronghold copies of hometown of sirte to pave the way for a full scale ground offensive by the rebels. in libya because now this report on the shrine to tarion side of the conflict. the holy bible of the khadafi regime is not. a new levy.

nobody cared about this people refer to. the capital tripoli is here for air the a people may not know for sure what the future will bring but they know that the past will never return. everything that might remind people of our decades of dictatorship is of the throne this is only for dirty things no only for doing the pings fee's fighting has continued since rebel forces and to tripoli during the week and much of the city bears the scars a war on top of months of relentless bombing by nato you have with ends of the bloodshed emerged when hundreds of bodies were found in a hospital abandoned by stuff in the arrival of rebel forces with no one clear control and many residents now live in fear of anarchy and of armed men from dave sides of the conflict. this man proudly shows as

a trophy one while he took part in the overrunning of conduct his residence probably his asea when we entered we saw many weapons and i quote there is no good country anymore the but the man says he would love to have another prize duffy's had was great and up this was a good thing to show this is such a way that there is none of that and that she was just my. son right now the kind that's. still at large this guy is not yet over there is no. tripoli. and i want tripoli is celebrating the end of a big taters ship analysts are skeptical but democracy is next in line for libya journalist escobar told us here at r.t. that al qaeda is already effectively in power in the capital. yes hall is did the

fractal military commander of tripoli as we speak i'll give you only jill had keen . and there he is an old yes it he was trained in afghanistan he was struck by the cia after nine eleven he was friends with. who was captured in molitor in two thousand and three he was tortured in bank or in one of those extremely rendition cia prisons in bangkok he was sent back to the libyans he made a deal with saif al islam in two thousand and nine he was really used and now he's the military commander of trip from the beginning to wind forward february seventh movement was hijacked by as a veto powers by a us military factors from tripoli everybody was working together including this hour after jihad this this one we don't know what's going to happen next. you know while the u.n. is calling for a halt to violence in libya nato allies are already eyeing up the countries of vast

oil reserves countries who've worked together to break up its rule and that waiting against each other to secure lucrative energy contracts and further ports and that's a fear as a new regime in libya could easily slide into corruption. half a billion dollars from italy now a whopping one point five billion from the u.n. last one to pursue three hundred million dollars from turkey it's questions abound about the future of the paste it back in libya it's the money it's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest in every now you've done the. opening up business for. everybody. it leads foreign minister has the night there's a race on with france to be the first on the ground to restart business in libya and the italians have me clear their eagerness to maintain the extremely case trade ties they enjoyed and they get back the regime because the money begins to flow to

help the national transitional council as it takes power the big question mark remains a great secondly he and his past funds belong in the states which is coming to an end the borderline between wealth private wealth for the good of its family and the wealth of the state were not very clear so it's hard to see how much of this money was a direct in the nation of darkness wealth of wealth and how much of it was actually . could be categorized as libyan assets because that the family were authentic cheesed of easing libya's riches and their own personal pocket money now there are concerns that the unfreezing of libyan assets without effective monitoring key to aid in the floodgates to new corruption is now a land of opportunity everybody is trying to. you know it's

a source of. trying to exploit this war as best everybody lucrative oil gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the war torn country rebuilds them. we won it seems. the action in a war is now what is indispensable for western economies we're serving to streets to live to prosper you destroy your appeal because it's through it's not just it's really that i've been trying to keep the national transitional council on sites like you know not the many western countries place or libya i mean big business there. so without a lot from moscow still to come for you in the program in the eye of the storm new york is bracing itself for the arrival of hurricane irene as part of the city are evacuated and public transport is being shut down. russia has

introduced a draft resolution at the u.n. security council designed to push the warring sides in syria towards peaceful dialogue moscow says its proposal is based on a similar statement unanimously passed by the security council earlier this month but the draft could face stiff opposition from western countries who are calling for a change of power in syria parties garnished you can of worms. it looks like we're going to see a battle of two different versions of resolutions on syria the u.n. security council russia is putting forward its graphic resolution which will be an alternative to the resolution that the u.s. and european representatives are putting together a letter has already been dubbed as sanctions resolution the u.s. and european leaders trying to put more pressure on the syrian government whereas the russian version of the resolution makes two very important points first of all it cost to the syrian government to expedite the implementation of the reforms that president assad has announced in order to effectively address the legitimate aspirations and concerns of the syrian people and second it urges the syrian

opposition to engage in political dialogue with the syrian authorities about what reforms to carry out in the country the syrian opposition there from think will be more forthcoming in that direction so a very important difference there the russian draft resolution does not put pressure on just one side it calls for dialogue it calls for restraint on both sides and here is more on that from russia's and point to the united nations who spoke with us earlier if there are some constructive ideas from all corners we're prepared to absorb them but of course simply you know marrying the two would go to different species from two different planets so what we have seen from. colleagues u.k. and others it's completely biased on the. exclusively on the syrian government that doesn't have anything about the need for dialogue doesn't go to your position for dialogue in fact our concern is that it's going to push the the more extreme the

more destructive elements of the syrian opposition towards. it even stronger efforts in order to topple the syrian government so that's why we don't like at all or western clothes are trying to achieve by that resolution and propose an alternative to the security council involved but the pervert involved in. for months russia has been pointing at the problem with the attitude the west of the west towards the dramatic developments in syria moscow says that attitude has been exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and president our start which effectively sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they remain insistent the situation could get in critical the west will come to help them you know the way it happened in libya the russian resolution calls on the syrian authorities to allow unhindered access to international humanitarian agencies and to fully cooperate

with the un commissioner for human rights now as for how the resolution how far the resolution can go both russia and the u.s. have veto power as we know along with china the u.k. and france and that means whatever resolution comes out at the end of the day it has to be acceptable for at least all of the five permanent members of the u.n. security council if they don't agree there is going to be no resolution. that is going to show they're from washington d.c. or you would argue a lot of what's going on a british challenge the judiciary system in the u.k. to expose corruption within the courts is losing his battle norman scarth an outspoken world war two veteran has lost an appeal against a six month jail sentence for recording a court hearing without permission because of his own laura but of course the eighty six year old is determined to fight on with his campaign for transparency. british prisons are full to bursting the courts are working overtime sending young

people to jail for their role in the recent riots in england and if they're said to leave prison they'll be languishing alongside eighty five year old norman scar he plied the arctic sea cheering the second world war serving his country taking essential supplies to the soviet union on the most dangerous journey in the world and now he's serving sea. x. months in prison on the whim of a british judge his crime recording a court hearing he said he did it because he's hard of hearing but the judge didn't accept that it was a very harsh sentence and i believe he was because he's uncovering the corruption of the judiciary you see them frown upon it scott is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights banning secret hearings yet still some cases in england all heard behind closed doors and recording and taking photographs is forbidden unlike in other e.u.

countries scott attends demonstrations where he shouts about corruption in the police and judiciary saying lawyers police and courts are in cahoots and regularly persecution gag those who disagree with them that's why m.p. john hemming suspects the judge was trying to shut him up we have in theory in this country some called freedom of expression that is people's right to speak out about what they see as wrong as long as they're telling the truth and i'm very worried this is an attempt to gag an elderly gentleman who may not always be right because he has a right here luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him normally the court of the for his case here to the boil court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile claims he's being denied it then chill medication in prison according to reports conditions in leeds prison are bad the war veteran can't get any exercise because he's unable to

walk for the entire hour allocators scott also says he's being denied access to a lawyer by his jailers still drawing on every day every call islamist with. norman scarth has vowed to keep fighting to expose corruption just as he fought all those years ago to keep fascism out of his country the irony is. the country he fought for is now the one he's fighting against your and it's policy london so no a quarter past the hour here in moscow major cities along the eastern seaboard of the united states including new york the persian themselves for the wrath of hurricane irene it's expected to flood parts of lower manhattan as public transport including the subway will be shut down for the first time ever despite it weakening to a category one storm forecasters say it remains a extremely dangerous and president obama has warned it could be historic is more important as more from the big apple. more than eight million new yorkers are

preparing for what's expected to be i.d.d. interests and possibly disastrous hurricane on its way to new york city this hurricane is expected to hit new york by nine pm saturday evening parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york there are very close to the water as of twelve pm all public transportation will come to a halt it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to evacuate from their building now up until this point new yorkers weren't really

taking these warnings in these forecasts seriously because the last time this city experienced our hurricane a very heavy and dangerous hurricane was in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight but as we saw saturday we saw the winds picking up we saw many people rushing to the supermarkets rushing to stores to stock up by good stuff food stock up on water some engineers believe that the infrastructure of new york city because it is so old may not be able to withstand the powers of the wind that there may be flooding in tunnels of new york city some airports may be flooded homes possibly even flooded and or destroyed so at this point everybody is preparing for the worst bracing themselves hoping it's not going to be as bad as forecasted but if it is it is not clear what will be of new york come monday. it's not it's marina ford i write that when i still have you here and we invite you want to journey

a thousand kilometers away from moscow to the king of region hear our close up team reports on how the region is the leading the way in a pioneering project to find homes for orphans. the pentagon has issued a report warning that china is on track to becoming a leading military power by two thousand and twenty but beijing has called the document distorted it claims the country's expanding of military capabilities could potentially destabilize the balance of power in asia over the past year china has developed a new stealth fighter aircraft carrier and has made a record number of space launchers however beijing says these are natural growth in the tech and in technological advances and not directed at any third party is an expert on asian and military affairs called the helen says the u.s. is noting its own interests in making a fuss about china. there's a lot of hype going on right now in the united states and some of that you speak cause they want to raise the chinese up so they were big danger that way we can

keep a large military footprint in asia but it also has to do with internal matters too it's a push to cut the military budget that harms companies that are known and the military is are digging in their heels and so there is trowing up this kind of chinese bugaboo aircraft carriers this missile which can sink your craft here it's not even a cast you keep in mind they have one of the aircraft carrier which is one half the size of american aircraft carriers american an american's have ten nimitz class aircraft carrier so even if they built one or two or even three more aircraft carriers they're nowhere near the level they would need to challenge the united states. this is r t let's check out some other news from around the world in our world update here that's when a suicide bomb attack has killed at least four people and wounded twenty in southern afghanistan police officers and civilians were among those injured by the

explosions now the taliban has claimed responsibility meanwhile hundreds of afghan militants are swept across the border into pakistan and attacked several security checkpoints killing up to twenty six they then to continue to seize other areas triggering further clashes with security forces. yemen is experiencing a sharp rise in the in the number of famine hit somali refugees flooding the country thousands of choosing to cross the gulf of aden on overcrowded boats instead of seeking shelter in neighboring countries kenya being the largest host country and also suffering from in has already received nearly half a million somalis the drought has put about twelve million people at risk across ethiopia kenya djibouti somalia. to algeria now where a suicide attack on a military academy has killed at least eighteen most of them trainee offices up to twenty others were injured it happened in the city of shell reports say up to two bombers sort of their explosives soldiers were breaking their ramadan fast although

no one's claimed responsibility similar assaults have been blamed on the regional arm of al qaida. the former georgian republic of a cartier has elected a new leader following the death of its president alexander the arc of the saw off two other candidates to the top seat chill now occupied for the next five years and is r.t. to tom parker reports there's been some big business to take care of in the little country. former vice president alexander un vibe is now the president of the caucasus republic of abkhazia the central election commission announced that he took fifty five percent of the one hundred two votes cast and they put voter turnout at a high seventy two percent all of this was made necessary by the death of the previous presidents surrogate by grouch on the twenty ninth of may he died suddenly leaving power vacuum in his place you have cars and people are going to expect

a lot from mr primarily building up cars use ruined infrastructure after a long struggle for independence from georgia three years ago russia recognized the independence of our cars year after a war away to the east in south ossetia and fears that the georgia may attack cars here as well but that was just the end of a long struggle for independence which started after the collapse of the soviet union and left a lot of the young republics infrastructure in ruins primarily the famous ones famous soviet holiday resorts along the coast here that will need to be built up and also the agriculture and fruit growing industries also very famous here but now very weak and if mr can build up both of those things he'll help this young republic to stand on its own two feet again. right there are now let's join our team travels all across the world's largest country of course russia exploring its

historic regions and a thousand year old traditions. today we continue exploring a russia as a curator of the region it's about a thousand kilometers from moscow but the area isn't just known for its folk art and array of museums in theatres here family comes first and locals try to help all all for kids to try and find a home and it's not easy to go to reports even children with physical mental and psychological disabilities don't end up feeling about. a partner being a personal tragedy and a difficulty to overcome being an orphan there's also a social problem in russia there are thousands of thousands of orphans but in fact most of them have either parents all relatives outside of the orphanage but these people simply do not want to look after them or kind of be trusted to do so so this is something that needs to be solved on

a social level where the general social problems the force these children to be taken away how can they be tackled so that's not necessarily something that either an individual or for the or an individual part of russia can provide but in the same region to try to say ok we are being dealt with all these orphans we're receiving all these people but at least all we can do is provide all of them a new home and that's what they're trying to do as you can see were appalled. in russia it's hard enough to find a new family for healthy olson's it's even harder for children like these all of them diagnosed with serious physical mental also i can logical disability. here at kira's finish number one they manage it well in russia there are currently hundred fifty thousand children who haven't been adopted. here ninety eight percent of all orphans find a new family before the six. many orphanages exist by themselves in isolation

we are reaching out to the potential parents and the authorities and working with them the first course of action is to try and place the children back with their girl or tickle parents who often give them up scared off by the diagnoses often and show that with the right care these children can lead normal lives the currents have to prove their attitude has changed for other potential adopters their educational courses and ongoing medical support all basics in the west but hardly universal in russia yet staff say these main reasons for their success. there's a crowd but it doesn't matter how good the facilities are here and what care the children receive we are all of the staff here still know them an orphanage is no substitute for a family a quick straw poll shows as much of here. there are three of us here me and my two sisters we really want to be adopted by the same family but not everyone wants three kids often ages track record is anything to go by will soon find

a family. of five new families but these children are commendable but others are only so bright and often it can do to solve the problem of adoption thirty and it cost them and not only adopted four children from orphanage number one but also sits on an adoptive parents committee yes can you i think the problem is the social attitudes towards the children it's not a case of money where an average family all of the state support is really there you just have to love the children themselves. no longer who's fourteen so she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised the doctor did. she finally found a home. in the home you are always just a part of the group but here in the family you are needed by someone there is not in a small love i'm happy. with the asking. so often it does make an effort to connect with the world outside and adoption becomes more

widespread and society will be more happy endings like this one eager ordinary. curate reaching. more news or videos and updates are waiting for you on our website at dot com and check out some of the items waiting for you there right now are born in atlanta killed in memphis and made in china but more of a controversy stock over the american icon of martin luther king's monument in washington which was designed sculpted and put together in the far east. and a third shark has left a twenty six year old man ravaged in russia's far east just days after a swimming round was lifted. authorities in colombia have given in to the demands of hundreds of women after they went on a sex strike earlier this month they spent thirty eight days of sex sitting in a highway to get local road construction work started this week lori hart and it's also known as the resident is asking people in new york for what would be willing

to do to abstain from. in the strike of crossed legs colombian women with held backs to get a road paved what is she would you withhold sex for this week let's talk about that right now the economy we need to do. so. it will get better gas. that also i think he says he says to peter to still make six we were in france maybe for world peace or to end hunger or something like that nothing bad thing i don't think so. the deficit. in congress. is so if american women perhaps having facts do you think it would change things here we would have solved the deficit crisis very quickly to do it was going to do

and if the story were to get their man motivated i can understand it would get me on the show pretty quick is there any thing that you would withhold facts or are you kidding no i think it's an effective tactic. it certainly works there yes but for them do you think it would work anywhere in the world yes i think men and women interact the same way everywhere do you think it would work if men without facts to get something done know i mean if it were a cure i think it's a little crazy but i mean hey you gotta do what you gotta do is no crazier than going to war and shooting people to get things done that is very true whether or not you agree with these women tactic the bottom line is it got the job done with no balance needed. he was asked a lot from moscow i'm. sure thing.